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Las Vegas Railway Express, branded as "X Train," is an American rail transport company that plans to operate passenger rail service between Southern California and Las Vegas, Nevada. ==Company== Led by Michael Barron, an entrepreneur largely involved in real estate, the company was formed in January 2010 from a combination of two previous ventures, one working in promotional merchandising and one involved in buying defaulted mortgages, though involved executives had begun to publicly promote the idea as eary as March 2009. The company originally planned for service to begin in mid-2011; however, at the time, the company was not close to establishing operating agreements with Amtrak, BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad, all of which operate trackage along the planned route from Los Angeles Union Station to Las Vegas, and the planned start date has been pushed back to late 2014.〔 In March 2012, the state of Nevada issued final approval for the service to operate, and in May, the company began issuing stock; by September, $2.3 million out of an estimated $35 million in start-up costs had been raised by stock sales.〔 In November, LVRE signed an agreement with Union Pacific allowing trains to operate over UP trackage from Daggett, California, to Las Vegas. According to the terms of the agreement, LVRE will pay UP $56 million for track improvements, including additional capicity and relocating UP facilities in Las Vegas.〔 As of the end of November, LVRE had yet to sign its operating agreement with Amtrak, which also includes LVRE's rights to travel on BNSF trackage, though the company said the text has been drafted and it expected the agreement to be signed in the near future.〔 By the end of November 2012, the company had spent about $12 million, with a further public offering of stock planned to raise the $100 million more necessary to begin operations.〔 In January 2013, LVRE announced that it had selected Orlando, Florida-based company Rail Enterprises, Inc. to refurbish its rolling stock, including upgrading interiors, mechanical systems and furnishings.〔 At the time, it still planned to begin service to Las Vegas in early 2014. In November 2013, the company said that, due to an undisclosed "off balance sheet financing" agreement, it had terminated its operating agreement with Union Pacific, which would have required LVRE to have paid UP $66 million for track improvements before the UP would allow passenger service on its trackage. In December 2013, the company announced its intention to begin seeking public-private partnerships to operate upscale passenger train service on routes around the country, .〔 It said that deliveries of its refurbished passenger cars would begin later in the month. On April 24, 2014, LVRE announced that it had reached an agreement with the Santa Fe Southern Railway to jointly operate excursion passenger trains between Santa Fe and Lamy, New Mexico.〔 LVRE would provide the capital to restore the line to operating condition, while Santa Fe Southern would operate the trains.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=X Train to operate Santa Fe Southern excursion trains )〕 On September 26, LVRE informed the Santa Fe Southern that they would be terminating the operation, effective on the 29th. In October 2014, the LVRE said that it had begun engineering a new route between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, through Mojave and Barstow, California, which would avoid the congested rail crossing of the Cajon Pass. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Las Vegas Railway Express」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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